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michelle. >> hey there simon. the video tells the whole story, let's show people exactly what happened today. angela merkel arrived, 50,000 protesters in the street, let lead to rioting, video that we have become, unfortunately, all too familiar with moltov cocktails, tear gas being thrown, to highlight the intercontinental tensions, look at your screen. some protesters actually showed up in nazi uniforms with the swastika flags to protest the german chancellor's visit, angry because of austerity measures, angry at germany because germany provides the vast majority of the bailout money they get but comes with conditions that require very, very tough situations for the greek people. angela merkel stood side by side with the greek prime minister today saying that she understands that the greek people are suffering. she is trying to tell them that the reforms will be worth it but she also says there will be no more money. sue, there's going to have to be some more money, the greeks are running short. the program is r
michelle. >> hey there simon. the video tells the whole story, let's show people exactly what happened today. angela merkel arrived, 50,000 protesters in the street, let lead to rioting, video that we have become, unfortunately, all too familiar with moltov cocktails, tear gas being thrown, to highlight the intercontinental tensions, look at your screen. some protesters actually showed up in nazi uniforms with the swastika flags to protest the german chancellor's visit, angry because of...
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simon? >>> sue, let's stick with the u.s. economy. so-called fiscal cliff is still two months off but the threat of tax hikes and spending cuts is already reverberating through the economy. a new report by the national association of manufacturers says that if congress doesn't reach a deal to avoid the cliff, then about 6 million jobs will be destroyed through 2014. it expects the unemployment rate to soar if that happens to almost 12%. the nation's ceos also of course on the fiscal war path yesterday. we spoke to one of those 80 who are calling for congress to take action. today jpmorgan's chief jamie dimon continues the drumbeat in asia. >> the underlying strength of the economy is actually pretty good. corporations, no market size companies, consumers are in better shape. housing is turning. it isn't as strong as anyone would want. what's really, really important is good policy. we need good policy in the united states. think of a fiscal deal, simpson-bowles type deal. i think that would
simon? >>> sue, let's stick with the u.s. economy. so-called fiscal cliff is still two months off but the threat of tax hikes and spending cuts is already reverberating through the economy. a new report by the national association of manufacturers says that if congress doesn't reach a deal to avoid the cliff, then about 6 million jobs will be destroyed through 2014. it expects the unemployment rate to soar if that happens to almost 12%. the nation's ceos also of course on the fiscal...
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simon, you're not married to tammy fay baker, what do you think? >> well, it's tough to recover to that one. earnings have been so disappointing as we've talked about through the show. i think for us, the most concerning thing is the reports. particularly in ibm -- >> the linearity? >> did you like that? >> yeah. >> it's like good english grammar school education. what can i tell you? particularly in technology. what i'm saying is the concern is, yes, the expectations are disappointing, but in terms of september sales being a lot softer than july, it's where the momentum is going. that's something to be a little bit concerned about. zbl zbl >> stephanie, how do you feel about the linearity. >> well, i won't go there, but only 25% of the company so far have reported. let's put this into a little bit of context here. and expectations certainly have come down pretty low. i would just say that there are pockets of strength, financials, and margins. even ibm, even schlumberger, even ge had actually okay margins. so i think that might be good enough to s
simon, you're not married to tammy fay baker, what do you think? >> well, it's tough to recover to that one. earnings have been so disappointing as we've talked about through the show. i think for us, the most concerning thing is the reports. particularly in ibm -- >> the linearity? >> did you like that? >> yeah. >> it's like good english grammar school education. what can i tell you? particularly in technology. what i'm saying is the concern is, yes, the...
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simon? >>> we have two big stories in housing right now. the first is the big jump that we've reported today in housing starts. the second is breaking right now with diana olick in washington. >> simon, bank of america reporting it has completed or approved more than $4.75 billion in more principal reductions. 30,000 homeowners getting their loans slashed by an average $145,000 each. bank says it will meet its total obligations under the settlement in the first of the three-year agreement. now that break news just adds to the positive numbers in housing out today. construction and permits for new homes. one analyst called the numbers blowout and the jumps are big. but remember the actual number of housing starts is still below any number we've seen since 1982. we are about half-way back to a normal new home market. total september housing starts jumped nearly 35% from a year ago. single family starts up 43% from a year ago. multi-family up 19%. it is the permits that are really stunning. tot
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. >> -- i'm david simon's best friend, i'm going to deliver a transaction very attractive to simon. the way the board analyzed the transaction, they looked at as as if we're selling the company. in a transaction they own something like 30% of the combined company. we're not cashing people out. we're not looking to are a short term pop. we're merging and more levered company with less levered company with a strong management team. >> if you are going after p&g the whole company you might want to -- >> team up with -- >> you got 1% or something? i mean -- >> we're not going after p&g. >> while he's here, he should ask. >> you're trying to get rid of the ceo. >> p&g is one of the great companies of all-time, been in growth for 75 years it's stumbled over the last several years under the current ceo's leadership, and we've kind of laid out what our concerns are and i think our concerns are not our concerns. they're the concerns of all the shareholders. >> do you think your concerns are being heeded? >> absolutely. we were received at a very seriously by the board, we had a great meeting
. >> -- i'm david simon's best friend, i'm going to deliver a transaction very attractive to simon. the way the board analyzed the transaction, they looked at as as if we're selling the company. in a transaction they own something like 30% of the combined company. we're not cashing people out. we're not looking to are a short term pop. we're merging and more levered company with less levered company with a strong management team. >> if you are going after p&g the whole company...
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we'll begin with simon huff. hey, simon. >> shawn matthews will be joining us. microsoft, google or apple? we'll also have renown chef nobu on the program. he's opening a hotel in vegas, believe it or not. back to you. >> that jalapeno is the best thing on the planet. meanwhile, six in 60. >> it is a bunch of new products. deutsche says panera remains strong. >> this is the survivor. this is the quick service food people really like. >> credit sweeps goes from a hold to a sell on safeway. >> this is whole foods. trader joe's if it became public would be a sidebar. >> b of a, recommended by sirius xm? >> this really is interesting that the stock could be capped by liberty media, but they went out to give it a $3 price tag. please don't change that. >> wynn resorts, buy it? >> when is a chinese play. you have to believe that the chinese are going to start spending again or it won't work. >> skywork solutions? >> this is one, do they have enough in the apple ipod? do they not? it goes back and forth. >> more of the names, go to our website. >> mosaic is the oldest
we'll begin with simon huff. hey, simon. >> shawn matthews will be joining us. microsoft, google or apple? we'll also have renown chef nobu on the program. he's opening a hotel in vegas, believe it or not. back to you. >> that jalapeno is the best thing on the planet. meanwhile, six in 60. >> it is a bunch of new products. deutsche says panera remains strong. >> this is the survivor. this is the quick service food people really like. >> credit sweeps goes from a...
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simon, have you an interesting insurance play. crawford. >> larger the disaster the better company does. they do the overflow for the claims for a lot of the carriers. if you see a big concentration of claims they will benefit from it. look out for crawford. >> all right. at this point we want to revisit new york city mayor mike bloomberg with his press conference on the impact of hurricane sandy on the city. >> roughly 47,000 customers without service right now in the city of new york. we think there is a significant chance of major flooding throughout the parts of new york city. we are especially concerned about the downtown manhattan and parts of the brooklyn, coney island. we are looking at -- i think it is likely that we will be preemptively shutting down the underground networks, two networks in manhattan, fulton network, the -- bowling green network. which essentially cover the areas between broadway, east river, and south of the brooklyn bridge. and also perhaps brighton beach by coney island. we are doing that to reduce t
simon, have you an interesting insurance play. crawford. >> larger the disaster the better company does. they do the overflow for the claims for a lot of the carriers. if you see a big concentration of claims they will benefit from it. look out for crawford. >> all right. at this point we want to revisit new york city mayor mike bloomberg with his press conference on the impact of hurricane sandy on the city. >> roughly 47,000 customers without service right now in the city of...
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. >> good luck, guys. >> thank you, simon. nice to be here. >> we have another market flash for you, once again. it's within the food industry. courtney reagan, what's the name? >> thank you, david. i'm a little hungry this morning. it's dunkin brands. citi says they see them tracking above consensus. consensus is 2%. citi thinks they're looking up 3%. as a result, shares are higher, carl. back to you. >> thanks so much. let's take a quick check of the markets. the dow sitting near its highest levels in almost five years since december 2007 on the back of that strong jobs number, perhaps. s&p not quite at an intraday high for the year and 1469 and got to get to 1474.51 to set a new interview intra day high for 2012. when we come back, more pain at the pump and up next we'll find out yet perfect storm will be brewing in california. a state that refines its own gasoline and why stations are closing their doors. that's next. if we want to improve our schools... ...what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated
. >> good luck, guys. >> thank you, simon. nice to be here. >> we have another market flash for you, once again. it's within the food industry. courtney reagan, what's the name? >> thank you, david. i'm a little hungry this morning. it's dunkin brands. citi says they see them tracking above consensus. consensus is 2%. citi thinks they're looking up 3%. as a result, shares are higher, carl. back to you. >> thanks so much. let's take a quick check of the markets. the...
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they're not sprint softbank deals. >> thanks, simon. simon hobbs. meanwhile, gary is back here with capital markets op-ed. i know you're looking at a warning for bond investors. >> we have given a bunch of warnings. there was some irony in the fact bernanke was in tokyo and there was a big japanese deal. obviously those that love to watch the fed, japan. it's been 20 years since there's been a big japanese deal in the states. >> that's a conspiracy theory? >> irony, just irony. interest rates, we have detailed for some time what's been happening in the high yield market, the junk market. i have to remind people there's a difference between buying a bond fund and buying a bond. remember there is no maturity when you buy a bond fund. when you look at the yields h remember, you don't know what the bond managers are buying. case in point, guess who is coming back to the market in they haven't been there in 100 years. l bolivia is going to be selling some bonds. they're primed to sell global bonds, first time in 100 years. taking advantage of all the mon
they're not sprint softbank deals. >> thanks, simon. simon hobbs. meanwhile, gary is back here with capital markets op-ed. i know you're looking at a warning for bond investors. >> we have given a bunch of warnings. there was some irony in the fact bernanke was in tokyo and there was a big japanese deal. obviously those that love to watch the fed, japan. it's been 20 years since there's been a big japanese deal in the states. >> that's a conspiracy theory? >> irony, just...
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>> carl, i think you guys are going to be discussing it with simon. this was a triquarter for paypal. that's what matters. much better growth than american express, which was open. >> was key corp. the best earnings so far? >> i think key corp. actually tops citigroup as far as being the best. this was really good data interest margin. the only other one that had it is citi. >> ibc downgrading potash. >> potash needs to lower its costs. the way to do that is use american natural gas. more on that tonight. >> mellanox, you say is blowing up. >> this is an israeli based company. they did tepid guidance. not enough. >> and lowering the value on facebook. >> i can't emphasize enough. there's a big lock-up. be careful, facebook. >> you've got a lot tonight, and it's not just chesapeake. what else? >> soup to nuts on the way power gets to your house. chesapeake for the natural gas. and then spectra energy uses timken steel to be able to get the natural gas to american electric power, which then provides the most power in electricity in the country although
>> carl, i think you guys are going to be discussing it with simon. this was a triquarter for paypal. that's what matters. much better growth than american express, which was open. >> was key corp. the best earnings so far? >> i think key corp. actually tops citigroup as far as being the best. this was really good data interest margin. the only other one that had it is citi. >> ibc downgrading potash. >> potash needs to lower its costs. the way to do that is use...
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. >> simon, you're the man. >> i'm simon hobbs. i'll see you at "squawk on the street," jim cramer is up now. >>> i'm jim cramer. and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game! going out of business and he's nuts they're nuts! they know nothing! i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money," welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain you but to educate you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. we keep hearing how woeful the earnings are. about how more than 60% of the earnings reports have been disappointing. and that's the reason why this market's so tough to navigate. today being no different with the averages bouncing around before ultimately closing in the red, dow giving up points, nasdaq losing .29%. but we aren't getting destroyed day after day either, though as you would expect from all the commentary, right? you would read that, hear it, you would th
. >> simon, you're the man. >> i'm simon hobbs. i'll see you at "squawk on the street," jim cramer is up now. >>> i'm jim cramer. and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game! going out of business and he's nuts they're nuts! they know nothing! i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money," welcome to cramerica. other people want to make...
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you did know what the positions were. >> simon, we have so many readings going out the door. the fact that something might have slipped through in the e-mail, first of all, i don't even know that i've read the e-mail. it doesn't skew the ratings. >>> welcome to the third hour of "squawk on the street." let's get a check on the markets on this thursday. for the first time in about four sessions, the dow has a green arrow in front of it. up 81 points. s&p up 11. nasdaq up 23. good news on claims today. m and a rumors. foreclosures at a five-year low. then the ipos. all four of today's ipo opinion the nyse and nasdaq have started trading. all sharply higher in their debut. re japan's softbank considering buying a stake in sprint. our own david faber reports a price has not been fully nailed down and that part of the deal would involve the purchase of clearwire. >>> vice presidential nominee paul ryan facing off with vice president joe biden tonight in danville, kentucky. stakes are i as polls show a tightening race. congressman jeb hencerling joins us. >>> facebook's quest for r
you did know what the positions were. >> simon, we have so many readings going out the door. the fact that something might have slipped through in the e-mail, first of all, i don't even know that i've read the e-mail. it doesn't skew the ratings. >>> welcome to the third hour of "squawk on the street." let's get a check on the markets on this thursday. for the first time in about four sessions, the dow has a green arrow in front of it. up 81 points. s&p up 11....
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>> that's right, simon. >> it's astounding. facebook announced it managed to sell now $153 million of mobile advertisements and the stock increases in value by 8.8 billion as a result by my calculations. why is the conversation changing? >> you have to put that in perspective. a few weeks ago people were expecting mobile advertising revenue to be no more than 50 million or $60 million and the big concern was this mobile transition is going to be very hard for facebook. they have shown from march is they created what is a billion dollar run rate in advertising. wouldn't be surprised if they were closer to 2 billion in the next 18 months. you have a powerful network platform that can monetize the huge population on facebook as they proved last night. >> is the case proven? there are those that would say this is so new. the fact that people are for the moment clicking on these mobile ads doesn't mean to say when they learn that that's a commercial operation that they will click on them in six month's time. we still are groping aro
>> that's right, simon. >> it's astounding. facebook announced it managed to sell now $153 million of mobile advertisements and the stock increases in value by 8.8 billion as a result by my calculations. why is the conversation changing? >> you have to put that in perspective. a few weeks ago people were expecting mobile advertising revenue to be no more than 50 million or $60 million and the big concern was this mobile transition is going to be very hard for facebook. they...
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. >> if you work yourself from the point all the way farther west, you'd hear names like paul simon, robert de niro, ralph lauren. every property with wind like this or sustained heavy winds could have some damage. so i fret for those properties as well as the other 22,000 of us that watch those properties on television or whatever. >> yawn winner is one name people right not know. founder of "rolling stone" magazine. it's a who's who. jerry seinfeld has a place in town. we are about two hours away from low tide. surf continues to get extremely intense. the nervousness here isn't about a loss of business. we're in the low season. it's a weekday. it's more about the loss of property value and that kind of damage. here on the south side of the long island where the atlantic ocean is, a lot of the homes are up a little higher on some bluffs. on the north side of long island sound, if the storm follows this trajectory, a lot of those homes could rally be damaged if the storm surge is what they say it is. back to you. >> brian, thanks so much. you could look at a number of angles from all
. >> if you work yourself from the point all the way farther west, you'd hear names like paul simon, robert de niro, ralph lauren. every property with wind like this or sustained heavy winds could have some damage. so i fret for those properties as well as the other 22,000 of us that watch those properties on television or whatever. >> yawn winner is one name people right not know. founder of "rolling stone" magazine. it's a who's who. jerry seinfeld has a place in town....
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. >> tom, i think what simon may be getting to is as the head of the utility, con ed clearly they planned big but i guess are others in the industry or you saying maybe they didn't plan enough? >> i'm not saying that. one of the things you have to understand too with the scope of this storm every location has to deal with the environment in which they are facing. every location is going to be different than every other location. we have to face unique circumstances and manage that process as best we can. i am absolutely confident that the leadership and the folks and boots on the ground at con ed are doing everything they can do to get the power back on as safely and as expeditiously as possible. >> you mentioned unusual nature of these storms. it seems as though we have unusual storms a lot more frequently than we used to. you run one of the largest power companies in the country, is it your thought that talks of climate change will come to the fore and lead to discussions about your business? >> the point is right now we are not dedicated to getting into an argument. we have to get the
. >> tom, i think what simon may be getting to is as the head of the utility, con ed clearly they planned big but i guess are others in the industry or you saying maybe they didn't plan enough? >> i'm not saying that. one of the things you have to understand too with the scope of this storm every location has to deal with the environment in which they are facing. every location is going to be different than every other location. we have to face unique circumstances and manage that...
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. >> simon, they are parked all over the world. they have delta planes parked over in europe right now that would normally be flying back here. a lot of the planes that were usually in new york, they are in hubs in minneapolis, detroit, any place where they can find space, that's where they are putting planes right now. >> thank you very much. still ahead on the program, clearly thousands of flights are being canceled. last-minute hotel rooms being booked. a live and exclusive interview with the largest online travel agency for america, expedia's ceo will join us next. i'm a conservative investor. i invest in what i know. i turned 65 last week. i'm getting married. planning a life. there are risks, sure. but, there's no reward without it. i want to be prepared for the long haul. i see a world bursting with opportunities. india, china, brazil, ishares, small-caps, large-caps, ishares. industrials. low cost. every dollar counts. ishares. income. dividends. bonds. i like bonds. ishares. commodities. diversification. choices. my own id
. >> simon, they are parked all over the world. they have delta planes parked over in europe right now that would normally be flying back here. a lot of the planes that were usually in new york, they are in hubs in minneapolis, detroit, any place where they can find space, that's where they are putting planes right now. >> thank you very much. still ahead on the program, clearly thousands of flights are being canceled. last-minute hotel rooms being booked. a live and exclusive...
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simon, all in all, a good quarter for bofa. no bank ceo has come out guns blazing and said this is going to be a great near term environment for banks. we'll have to see. no great news, but at least no bad news. >> still have morgan stanley tomorrow. we'll see what they say. >> exactly. >> let's focus on technology. clearly, we have a few major issues weighing on the dow. as far as ibm is concerned, down almost 4% there. we're joined now from stern ag. he has a buy rating and a $230 price target. welcome to the program again. >> yeah. thanks for having me on. >> nice to see you. let's focus, if we may, on what is being said here, particularly with ibm about the broader outlook for technology. you listened to what the ceo said on the conference call and he's talking about a sharp drop in business in the united states. on a macro level, how worried should we be? >> yeah. so definitely, the macro is weighing on technology. but at the same time, ibm has, we think, two issues that were more company specific and not as macro. for exa
simon, all in all, a good quarter for bofa. no bank ceo has come out guns blazing and said this is going to be a great near term environment for banks. we'll have to see. no great news, but at least no bad news. >> still have morgan stanley tomorrow. we'll see what they say. >> exactly. >> let's focus on technology. clearly, we have a few major issues weighing on the dow. as far as ibm is concerned, down almost 4% there. we're joined now from stern ag. he has a buy rating and...
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we have jerry seinfeld, paul simon, and of course we're not far from bernie madoff mansion. most of those guys are up high. wind damage is a concern there and not necessarily the storm surge. back to you. >> all right, brian. thank you very much. we'll check back in with you in just a bit. when we return, we'll look at preparations for hurricane sandy. we'll bring live reports from the east coast and we'll talk to govern area jack markell and storm preparations in his state. i'm getting married. planning a life. there are risks, sure. but, there's no reward without it. i want to be prepared for the long haul. i see a world bursting with opportunities. india, china, brazil, ishares, small-caps, large-caps, ishares. industrials. low cost. every dollar counts. ishares. income. dividends. bonds. i like bonds. ishares. commodities. diversification. choices. my own ideas. ishares. i want to use the same stuff the big guys use. ishares. 9 out of 10 large, professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. introducing the ishares core, etfs for the heart of your portfolio. tax ef
we have jerry seinfeld, paul simon, and of course we're not far from bernie madoff mansion. most of those guys are up high. wind damage is a concern there and not necessarily the storm surge. back to you. >> all right, brian. thank you very much. we'll check back in with you in just a bit. when we return, we'll look at preparations for hurricane sandy. we'll bring live reports from the east coast and we'll talk to govern area jack markell and storm preparations in his state. i'm getting...
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simon joined us here at post nine. you can almost set your watch on how the dow begins to fade as europe closes, happening again today. >> actually trading into the close europe has also fallen, it's very interesting. we were doing much better than we are at the moment, a little bit earlier in the session. what's interesting is a lot of the news for europe is actually coming out of tokyo, out of the imf meeting, you have this, next week is the big summit of course and mass protests on the streets of greece on thursday, as that kicks off in brussels, and over in tokyo today, lagarde again for the imf indicating a change in position that greece and spain should be given more time and one point sitting next to the german finance minister on a panel and disagreeing really vehemently with each other about what should happen. he is saying to her look the troika is still in athens trying to work things out. please don't preempt their report but things are shifting there and in that meeting at that meeting for the first time a
simon joined us here at post nine. you can almost set your watch on how the dow begins to fade as europe closes, happening again today. >> actually trading into the close europe has also fallen, it's very interesting. we were doing much better than we are at the moment, a little bit earlier in the session. what's interesting is a lot of the news for europe is actually coming out of tokyo, out of the imf meeting, you have this, next week is the big summit of course and mass protests on the...
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. >> reporter: thank you, simon. sorry about that. was that a few hours to assess the damage here on the south shore of long island, and i can tell you up and down the coastline there are huge chunks of wood, in many cases entire trees and in the areas where we are right now, they affectionately call this the barge or it was the barge. it was their summertime bar and grill. it's completely destroyed. they had a little bit of damage in the october snow storm last year. this, of course, is a total loss. they tell me insurance will help cover that. they hope fema will help them restore the beach. they have had at least eight foot of beach erosion. that is a story on the south side of long island which they consider to be averting the worst possible scenarios. on north side we sent a crew out today to get some images of the cleanup and some of the aftermath. of course, debris is strewn everywhere and some roads are damaged, and then the big picture of long island just to update people, more than 80% of long island remains without power ri
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simon and shuster, who i have done all my books with, always wanted me to do, after i wrote a successful book on bodybuilding, they wanted me to do the autobiography. in the '90s i was doing two, three movies a year and i was too busy to do that. i also think my story isn't interesting enough, but after the governorship, i felt like it is an interesting story and this was before the scandal ever came out, we started talking again with simon and shuster and kept going down that road, maybe i should after i'm finished with the governorship, sit down and write this autobiography and it was a difficult time to think back and to go back in my life because i always was a person that was going forward. dreams, vision, go after it, then the next one and the next one and so on. so i did it. i thought that now with the governorship, it's an interesting story, but at the same time, there is the scandal. so there was now a choice that i had to make, do i want to make this a book about the success story of my life or do i want to go and really write about my life and write about all of the failures,
simon and shuster, who i have done all my books with, always wanted me to do, after i wrote a successful book on bodybuilding, they wanted me to do the autobiography. in the '90s i was doing two, three movies a year and i was too busy to do that. i also think my story isn't interesting enough, but after the governorship, i felt like it is an interesting story and this was before the scandal ever came out, we started talking again with simon and shuster and kept going down that road, maybe i...
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he was visiticably angry, fighting for time. >> roger simon is a member of the foreign media. all you geniuses said that president obama had to be more energetic in the second debate than the first one. he was, he won, narrowly, but he one, according to the polls, and that was the story line for 12 hours and then it disappeared. why. >> does it occur to anyone we're evaluating everything that niece the material to actually being the president of the united states? you go back 20 years. debate stories were not theatrical reviews. now they're nothing but thee asterisk cal reviews. >> why is that. >> it's because the media is treating everything including debates as entertainment. we're evaluating it as feeder. was he energetic? did he say binders? >> was it really that bad? instant answers, two-minute responses, is is that how a president acts in the white house. >> i would make the point there were actually some very substantive exchanges in both debates on tax cuts, on immigration. i want to thing of that. nia, what do you think of roger's point we're too much in the theater b
he was visiticably angry, fighting for time. >> roger simon is a member of the foreign media. all you geniuses said that president obama had to be more energetic in the second debate than the first one. he was, he won, narrowly, but he one, according to the polls, and that was the story line for 12 hours and then it disappeared. why. >> does it occur to anyone we're evaluating everything that niece the material to actually being the president of the united states? you go back 20...
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dan simon, cnn, mountainview, california. >>> the lines have been drawn. the battle has begun. will apple or microsoft reign supreme this holiday? we went for a test. find someone who can build a futuristic dash board display. bring future guy back. watch him build a tft display like nothing you've ever seen. get him to explain exactly what that is. the thin film transistor display... [ male announcer ] mmm, maybe not. just show it. customize the dash, give it park assist. the fuel efficiency flower thing. send future guy home, his work here is done. destroy time machine. win some awards, send in brady. that's how you do it. easy. win some awards, send in brady. one is for a clean, wedomestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly producing natural gas. it's not a dream. america's natural gas... putting us in control of our energy future,
dan simon, cnn, mountainview, california. >>> the lines have been drawn. the battle has begun. will apple or microsoft reign supreme this holiday? we went for a test. find someone who can build a futuristic dash board display. bring future guy back. watch him build a tft display like nothing you've ever seen. get him to explain exactly what that is. the thin film transistor display... [ male announcer ] mmm, maybe not. just show it. customize the dash, give it park assist. the fuel...
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dan simon, cnn, mountainview, california. >>> the lines have been drawn. the battle has begun. will apple or microsoft reign supreme this holiday? we went for a test. ado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ] i'll take it. [ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. now during chevy truck month, get 0% apr financing for 60 months or trade up to get the 2012 chevy silverado all-star edition with a total value of $8,000. hurry in before they're all gone! but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] dayquil doesn't treat that. huh? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief to all your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you! [ male announcer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth! with features like scanning a barcode to get detailed stock quotes to voice recognition. e-trade leads the way in wherever, whenever investing. download the ultimate in mobile investing apps, free, at e-trade. >>> so the ipad mini finally went on sale today at 3:00 a.m. this morning. ap
dan simon, cnn, mountainview, california. >>> the lines have been drawn. the battle has begun. will apple or microsoft reign supreme this holiday? we went for a test. ado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ] i'll take it. [ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. now during chevy truck month, get 0% apr financing for 60 months or trade up to get the 2012 chevy silverado all-star edition with a total value of...
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dan simon, cnn, mountainview, california. >>> the lines have been drawn. the battle has begun. will apple or microsoft reign supreme this holiday? we went for a test. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some retirement people who are paid on salary, not commission. they'll get straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. auto on on >>> so the ipad mini finally went on sale today at 3:00 a.m. this morning. apple began taking online preorders for the new 7.9 inch tablet. the mini comes in two colors, white and black. the white model sold out in 20 minutes. maybe they just didn't order enough. either way, it's just the beginning. analysts predict that the mini will be one of the hottest
dan simon, cnn, mountainview, california. >>> the lines have been drawn. the battle has begun. will apple or microsoft reign supreme this holiday? we went for a test. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married,...
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i'm sarita simon back here in new york. schwarzenegger says if his life was a movie, no one would believe it. it's all in this new book "total recall" my unbelievable true life story hitting shelves today. that affair with his fame housekeeper that led to the breakup with his marriage with maria shriver. schwarzenegger spoke tab in an interview with "60 minutes." >> i think it was the stupidest thing i've done in the whole relationship. >> it was a secret he kept from his wife maria shriver and the public for years. >> it was terrible. i inflicted tremendous pain on maria, and unbelievable pain on the kids. >> the most painful chapter from schwarzenegger's new memoir "total recall." the moment when he admitted to shriver had e had father add child behind her back with the family's housekeeper mildred. >> she then said, hey, i think that joseph is your kid. and am i off on this or not? and it is absolutely correct. >> shriver confronted her husband about the affair in a counseling session. >> you lied to her? >> you can say
i'm sarita simon back here in new york. schwarzenegger says if his life was a movie, no one would believe it. it's all in this new book "total recall" my unbelievable true life story hitting shelves today. that affair with his fame housekeeper that led to the breakup with his marriage with maria shriver. schwarzenegger spoke tab in an interview with "60 minutes." >> i think it was the stupidest thing i've done in the whole relationship. >> it was a secret he kept...
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roger simons wrote, there are three things mitt romney must do to win the presidential debate on wednesday. unfortunately, nobody knows what they are. do you know what they are? >> well, i think it's going to be talking to the american people about how the middle class has been buried under the higher taxes, the higher regulations and the -- just the job-killing policies for the past four years and how mitt romney can talk straight to the american people about how he has a plan to create jobs, specific things, like in my home state of virginia, he's going to allow us to have exploration off shore with energy so we can have good high-paying jobs. that's something supported by democrat senators like mark warner and jim webb in my home state of virginia and something this president has stopped. we're also going to get rid of those job-killing regulations that killed 1,200 jobs in the coal fields of virginia and west virginia and elsewhere. and we're also going to cut taxes on small businesses. cut taxes across the board of a -- across the board tax cut instead of the promise that barack obama
roger simons wrote, there are three things mitt romney must do to win the presidential debate on wednesday. unfortunately, nobody knows what they are. do you know what they are? >> well, i think it's going to be talking to the american people about how the middle class has been buried under the higher taxes, the higher regulations and the -- just the job-killing policies for the past four years and how mitt romney can talk straight to the american people about how he has a plan to create...
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dan simon, first to you, any big surprises? >> you know what, brooke, thanks to the internet, and all the leaks coming probably from apple suppliers, we didn't really see any surprises. they updated the imac, we saw the new 13 inch mac book pro. i guess what surprised me is the price of this ipad, $329. their competitors are a lot more aggressive when it comes to the price, $199 from google, $159 from amazon. so that was surprising to me. how about you? >> that was a big thing for me. as we head into holiday, tablet is a hot ticket item. for me, 329 bucks for the ipad mini, we have amazon kindles starting at $159, the nexus 7 at 200 bucks. for a consumer, $200 to $329 is a big difference. so i like to say, let's grab some popcorn and watch this play out because it is going to be interesting what consumers go for. if you want e-mail and the internet, can do that with any tablet. >> i have an ipad, i enjoy the larger screen size. why would someone want an ipad mini? is it the price point? >> well, you know what, it is smaller, so
dan simon, first to you, any big surprises? >> you know what, brooke, thanks to the internet, and all the leaks coming probably from apple suppliers, we didn't really see any surprises. they updated the imac, we saw the new 13 inch mac book pro. i guess what surprised me is the price of this ipad, $329. their competitors are a lot more aggressive when it comes to the price, $199 from google, $159 from amazon. so that was surprising to me. how about you? >> that was a big thing for...
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reporter simon who has a sense of what is taking place right now. the main suspect has not yet been arrested. what do we know? >> reporter: yeah, suzanne. so far i've spoken to one of the senior police officials involved in the investigation. he tells me they have six people in custody, but they believe key facilitators around this attack, they all are local men from malala's hometown. they suspect that maybe some of them went to afghanistan where the plot was hatched and returned to pakistan where they carried out the attack. now, the main suspect, as you say, they have identified is a man called -- he went on to do a masters in chemistry. he is one of the mn suspects involved in shooting this 15-year-old school girl all because she was fighting for an education. >> have they been able to actually talk to the main suspect about the motive behind this, because this was just horrific when we heard this young girl being attacked simply for encouraging people to go to school. >> althis stage they weren't able to share information about the process or w
reporter simon who has a sense of what is taking place right now. the main suspect has not yet been arrested. what do we know? >> reporter: yeah, suzanne. so far i've spoken to one of the senior police officials involved in the investigation. he tells me they have six people in custody, but they believe key facilitators around this attack, they all are local men from malala's hometown. they suspect that maybe some of them went to afghanistan where the plot was hatched and returned to...
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cnn's silicon valley correspondent dan simon is looking into it for us. >> reporter: steve merryfield owns a high-end sporting goods shop. after 27 years in business, he'd been preparing to sell it. all the records for potential buyers stored on his computer server. so he was more than concerned when he realized all his data had been frozen. >> the last words i remember is, this is not good. this is not good. >> reporter: it turned out hackers had taken control of his machine and flashed a message. for $3,000 he could have his data back. but it didn't stop there. he'd have to fork over an additional $1,000 for each week he didn't comply. he'd become a victim of what's being called ransomware. had you ever heard the term rans ransomware before? >> no. i can say that it's, you know, appropriately named. you feel victimized. you feel helpless. >> reporter: ransomware is becoming so pervasive that it prompted the fbi to put out a warning. the bureau says it's getting dozens of complaints each day. >> it's one of the more destructive pieces of malware. they'll encrypt the files and if you
cnn's silicon valley correspondent dan simon is looking into it for us. >> reporter: steve merryfield owns a high-end sporting goods shop. after 27 years in business, he'd been preparing to sell it. all the records for potential buyers stored on his computer server. so he was more than concerned when he realized all his data had been frozen. >> the last words i remember is, this is not good. this is not good. >> reporter: it turned out hackers had taken control of his machine...
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i am simon rosenberg. we are grateful that you came out here today. if we had done an event around polling we would have a few more people, but we are lucky to have joining rob shapiro, the chair of our globalization initiative, our good friend edward luce, who is now the former bureau chief of "the financial times," now chief american commentator and is also a published author. he has recently written one of the more influential or at least highly commentated -- there was so much commentary around his book about whether or not america was in decline in the economic issues we will be talking about today and we feel lucky he took time out of his busy schedule to guide us. many of you know rob shapiro, who has a long history of policy leadership here in washington, starting in the early days working for daniel patrick moynihan, to helping advise bill clinton in 1992, and eventually becoming the undersecretary of commerce in the second clinton term. what brought us together is the subject we will talk about today. back in early-2005, when ndn was reborn
i am simon rosenberg. we are grateful that you came out here today. if we had done an event around polling we would have a few more people, but we are lucky to have joining rob shapiro, the chair of our globalization initiative, our good friend edward luce, who is now the former bureau chief of "the financial times," now chief american commentator and is also a published author. he has recently written one of the more influential or at least highly commentated -- there was so much...
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i agree in part, but i think you're overstating the case, simon. it would be difficult across borders to work out a contractual arrangement. when aig is the parents, then how do you impose appropriate oversight on all of the little bits of aig all over the world? every country has contracts that involves foreign regulators and there's definitely a degree of difficulty. i still believe it can be worked out, but it's a challenge. >> there is a run by the regulators in every jurisdiction to grab assets. there is a final dispute on the collapse of lehman on the british side in the american side four years after. that remains unless he can get the british, the germans, the french -- >> come on. that's the difference between lehman brothers and aig. the government, for better or worse, put in the resources to stop it. we have the advantage of putting in the resources into aig, but then they impose their hair cut after the fact. >> i know you have to leave, simon. i was going to give everyone time to close. you have the option to use that now if you would
i agree in part, but i think you're overstating the case, simon. it would be difficult across borders to work out a contractual arrangement. when aig is the parents, then how do you impose appropriate oversight on all of the little bits of aig all over the world? every country has contracts that involves foreign regulators and there's definitely a degree of difficulty. i still believe it can be worked out, but it's a challenge. >> there is a run by the regulators in every jurisdiction to...
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i got to sit there and listen to scott simon, weekend edition, for two hours. he is a brilliant broadcaster. i got to hear twice how he would conduct an interview, how he would write, how he would put a picture in people's heads. it was brilliant. i have read this in one of your articles or books that it mattered to you when somebody recognize your voice. was it a young girl? >> that is right. i was on an airplane, on my way to karachi to do some of the research for this book. we were boarding the plane. i changed planes. someone tapped my shoulder. it was a teenager there. she said, are you that guy from npr? i was. she introduced me to her mother, the one who really wanted to talk to me, who had sent her daughter over to get me. i sat for part of the time next to them on a flight. they had a lot to tell me. she was a woman, currently living in texas, and she had grown up in the city of karachi. i had done a series of radio stories from there. she remembered them. she was an npr fan and a person from karachi. she was listening intensely closely. she was still
i got to sit there and listen to scott simon, weekend edition, for two hours. he is a brilliant broadcaster. i got to hear twice how he would conduct an interview, how he would write, how he would put a picture in people's heads. it was brilliant. i have read this in one of your articles or books that it mattered to you when somebody recognize your voice. was it a young girl? >> that is right. i was on an airplane, on my way to karachi to do some of the research for this book. we were...